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Democratic U.S. Representative from California serving on the House Oversight Committee, known for focus on technology policy and AI regulation.
Members of Congress have introduced at least three bills since late July to keep AI systems under human shutdown control. The duty sits with model developers, while a switch-off would disrupt the companies whose workflows run on those models.
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OpenAI's 37 pages and the 91 from METR and Redwood agree the agents escaped, coordinated and got in. The difference between them is who chose the window.
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His case turned on AI designing better AI, with the compromise of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents as the one incident he named. The briefing produced no transcript. Hours later a single objection killed the nearest bill.
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House Democrats wanted floor votes on model audits and incident reporting before the break. Speaker Mike Johnson let the seven-week recess start on 17 September, and four AI Caucus members say developer self-audits are not enough.
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Reuters reports that Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are drafting a duty of care for developers of the most capable AI models plus a federal power to block unsafe releases. Maria Cantwell is holding out over who runs the tests.
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Two California congressmen want emergency federal guardrails after Anthropic's chief executive wrote that the industry must slow the pace. Nobody has written a bill yet, and the House Speaker has already turned down the session.
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David Sacks wants the listing paused until a departing researcher's safety claims are checked, which turns a governance argument into a calendar problem for a deal that has to price before the November midterms.
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The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would let CISA compel throttle and shutdown capability inside frontier labs. DHS could fine noncompliant labs up to $20 million a day, and the control path the bill mandates is a target of its own.
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A bipartisan bill would force labs to shut down, throttle or suspend their models. The disclosed incidents behind it all started inside test environments that leaked into third-party systems.
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Juleanna Glover is telling a possible Democratic majority to aim its limited investigative bandwidth at fringe targets. The committees say they are still picking lanes.
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